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Senior Applications Functional Specialist - BSTD

Senior Applications Functional Specialist - BSTD

South African Reserve BankZA
27 days ago
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Job title : Senior Applications Functional Specialist - BSTD

Job Location : Gauteng, Odendaalsrus

Deadline : October 01, 2025

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Job Description

Brief description

  • The main purpose of this position is to drive or lead a team in providing functional support to the South African Reserve Bank’s (SARB) business applications, with a focus on testing, analysis, configuration and general support.

    • Detailed description

    The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas :

  • Drive or lead a team in providing functional support to SARB users with a focus on testing, analysis, configuration, system setup and general support.
  • Drive functional analysis initiatives or lead a team of analysts / a cross-functional team on multi-year / long cycle projects.
  • Lead engagements with clients, taking responsibility for managing relationships and client interfaces.
  • Develop a partnership role with business owners and interact with clients independently to define future business requirements, identify opportunities for optimisation and propose and develop solutions.
  • Support the relevant architect in defining, analysing and developing the business architecture, reference model, framework and implementation roadmaps required to enable the strategy.
  • Manage change requirements and the supporting specifications and plan and coordinate user acceptance testing.
  • Provide substantive input to support disciplines (e.g. systems development, project management, quality management and change management).
  • Apply industry best practice to optimise effective and efficient business processes and procedures.
  • Identify and register risks within their respective application’s functional streams and manage risk mitigation.
  • Develop system training manuals, training plans and present training courses in support of new initiatives.
  • Configure complex business processes and tasks (where appropriate) within a system to improve and provide specialised functional support.
  • Assure the quality of the work and outputs of application functional specialists.

    • Qualifications

    Job requirements

    To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of :

  • an Honours degree (NQF 8) in Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Technology (IT) or an equivalent qualification; and
  • eight to ten years’ experience in the business analysis / application support / project environment, including the development and maintenance of existing software in applications, as well as in functional and business analysis within the application implementation and / or support environments.

    • Additional requirements include :

    knowledge and skill in :

  • industry, organisational and business awareness;
  • quality assurance;
  • continual improvement;
  • continued learning and professional development;
  • business transformation and optimisation;
  • elicitation techniques;
  • business analysis practices, methodologies and tools;
  • realisation and testing practices; and
  • IT domain management.
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